JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – Democratic Attorney General Chris Koster’s fundraising continues to outpace the rest of the candidates running for Missouri governor. Campaign finance reports released Friday show Koster raised $2.2 million between the beginning of the year and the end of March. Koster’s $7.4 million in cash on hand is also larger than…
(KTRS) – Former banker Shaun Hayes and developer Michael Litz were indicted for crimes, including bank fraud this week. The Post-Dispatch reports that prosecutors say that after Hayes bought control of Excel Bank in 2007, he convinced the bank to purchase loans from Litz’s development company. The issue is that prosecutors say both men knew…
BELLEVILLE, Ill. (AP) – The 26-year-old son of a former Alorton mayor has been sentenced to consecutive life sentences for killing two men in the nearby village of Washington Park. Randy McCallum Jr. was sentenced Thursday in St. Clair County Circuit Court following his February first-degree murder convictions in the 2009 deaths of Charles Black…
ROLLA, Mo. (AP) – A committee leading the search for a new president of the University of Missouri system nagged by racial unrest says candidates must have “a deft command” of communications and public relations. The Columbia Daily Tribune reports that the committee approved a list of qualifications for the successor to Tim Wolfe during…
(KTRS) – Two people are dead and a third is in the hospital after a shooting just about a block from Crown Candy Kitchen in north St. Louis. Police say that the suspect or suspects knocked on the door of the apartment and when someone answered the door, the shots started. Two of the victims…
WASHINGTON (AP) – U.S. researchers see further signs from satellite imagery that North Korea is looking to produce more plutonium for nuclear weapons. The activity seen at the Nyongbyon nuclear complex comes amid a flurry of weapons-related tests by North Korea. The website 38 North says that commercial satellite imagery taken Monday shows a rail…
BOSTON (AP) – Boston marked the third anniversary of the deadly 2013 marathon bombings with subdued remembrances. The governor and mayor joined victims’ families Friday morning for a brief and quiet ceremony at the finish line on Boylston Street. Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker and his wife, Lauren, bowed their heads in silence after helping the…
